A02. HRN-2640 Cam C
In: 03.43.54 Out: 03.45.15
Sound Bite: Clark Gregg, Chuck Palahniuk – what was that first meeting with Huston like
Gregg – Well I didn’t. Everything’s new to you when you’re a first time director. I don’t know, I’ve been on the other side of those meetings sometimes. I’ve never been Anjelica Huston sitting down there with a director. So usually I’m going, “You gotta use me.” Um for me I knew she was a little wary about the script as everyone had been and yet um I felt like she was perfect. At a certain level I felt like I could convince her and so when she sat down, she took one look at me and she kind of, her eyes welled up with tears within seven seconds of sitting down, and I said, “Oh God, I’ve really blown this, and I don’t even know how.” And then she told me that her mother had passed away when she was young and she was raised by a wonderful Irish nanny and that I looked just like her and I thought, okay, I hope this was a nice nanny and not a mean nanny, but it turned out to be this tremendously loving wonderful woman who I looked just like, and um any you know hurt feelings I might have about looking like somebody’s old nanny, immediately ? because it seemed like it was opening the door to her being interested. So it turned out the woman’s last name was Shine, which was my mother’s maiden name, so we had our goosebumps and we started talking about the script and she was in.

A04. HRN-2640 Cam C
In: 03.46.38 Out: 03.47.04
Sound Bite: Clark Gregg, Chuck Palahniuk – on the character
Gregg – Yeah, Victor’s kind of one of the one of those anti-hero characters uh that I fell in love with in the 70s in movies like Cuckoo’s Nest and Five Easy Pieces and a lot of movies like that and yet there’s a distinctively kind of modern bent on it in a way that you know we haven’t seen sexual compulsion dealt with this honestly in any movie that I know about and we certainly haven’t seen it dealt with in a way that’s funny.

A06. HRN-2640 Cam C
In: 03.47.36 Out: 03.48.22
Sound Bite: Clark Gregg, Chuck Palahniuk – where did that sex addiction part come from
Palahniuk – You know I uh, my brother had joked years ago about meeting women in support groups for sexually irresponsible people and at the time it had seemed like a joke but again after my father was killed I found out he was killed after answering a personals ad, and I was really fascinated by trying to research his compulsive relationship sort of addiction and how he always had kind of a string of girlfriends and I really wanted to understand what drove him so I went to sexaholics anonymous as part of research for this book, but it did give me kind of an understanding about these things that drove my father to the circumstances that lead to his death.